MGAT: Multi-view Graph Attention Networks.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

Multi-view graph embedding is aimed at learning low-dimensional representations of nodes that capture various relationships in a multi-view network, where each view represents a type of relationship among nodes. Multitudes of existing graph embedding approaches concentrate on single-view networks, that can only characterize one simple type of proximity relationships among objects. However, most of the real-world complex systems possess multiple types of relationships among entities. In this paper, a novel approach of graph embedding for multi-view networks is proposed, named Multi-view Graph Attention Networks (MGAT). We explore an attention-based architecture for learning node representations from each single view, the network parameters of which are constrained by a novel regularization term. In order to collaboratively integrate multiple types of relationships in different views, a view-focused attention method is explored to aggregate the view-wise node representations. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on several real-world datasets, and it demonstrates that the proposed approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art baselines.

Authors

  • Yu Xie
    Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
  • Yuanqiao Zhang
    Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Xidian University, Xi'an, China.
  • Maoguo Gong
  • Zedong Tang
    School of Electronic Engineering, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Xidian University, China.
  • Chao Han
    School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. China.